Chanukah 5784: An Education in Beauty

sh tonight is the sixth night of we wish and we pray that our words which we're going to say tonight in will give Merit for all those people who are killed in all those people who are held as hostages in in should take them out from ens slavery and captivity and bring them out into freedom and Redemption all those people who are sick who are M GL in hospital should send each of them they should be perfectly well and strong as they say here in Israel all those people NE who are aim who are MERS in the are and we wish andem should send each of them an a great support and amongst all the people we ask as well that all those people the the soldiers who are standing out and protecting us all the time protect all of them those people NE if you know here in Israel have been sent out of their homes and living in foreign quarters in strange quarters in hotels each one of them and all their mishas we ask at Hashem should bench all of them and they should come out meet and their families should have in their homes in their lives even though this sh is not particularly geared to the topic of what's going on in Gaza but let the Merit of our learning our inspiration and hopefully the enlightenment should be a great source and a merit for all these people that we've just mentioned kanuka in reality the name of kanuka is from the word means education to guide a person that a person should have a certain guidance and understanding and a comprehension the word comes from the inside there is a the meaning is as follows that when a child is Young educate a child ala according to his way so that when he grows old he will not leave lose from his he will be guided all the time from the that he be given in other words the meaning is that when a child is Young you have an opportunity to guide him the great R once explained there were two words here which are crucial when it comes to the education of a child means the opportunity that you have the chance that you have to give to the child and the child will grow and learn from you the D is a which he conects later meaning is an opportunity which is present at the moment is and therefore if a child picks up the correct the opportunity when a parent has the chance to educate the child he will develop and and be inspired for for a path for his life for the future and that's really the meaning of the POS and therefore perhaps our by site we can SE as follows comes at the beginning of the year meaning after Sim after the yam the first yam of the year is really kanuka maybe perhaps the purpose is that we should pick up an education from the beginning of the year and that will take us and guide us through the for the rest of the year meaning we should be educated and therefore for the for the rest of and maybe we can learn a little bit of je and say that our should be we shouldn't lose from this that we pick up from at the beginning of the year and maybe that's the perhaps a Jewish taken from the words of RA the writes inem a beautiful Point how we must understand and appreciate the value of all the Y that we have there is inside every y says he explains that every y has in it an aspect of the the brilliant light the spiritual involvement the enlightenment inspiration from every single Y and we're supposed to doive and take it out from that y for example when it comes to P the the enlightenment which we have is from G took us out From Slavery into Redemption certainly is from mat and suus is the meaning there is a certain in momentum there is a certain light which we take out of the Y and that is the Y which the the light which we must take out the involvement the enlightenment which we're supposed to take out of the on and therefore what we're trying to search in this particular she is what exactly is the what is theas that we take out of kanah that it's crucial to take out and appreciate the greatness of this J that we have I remember reading often in the writings of rla in he explains as follows and he learned from his rebi the great RN Z who was the son of the alter rabesa writes many times that the Reb RN used to say always that the the calendar is not necessarily a history book meaning we don't recall and we don't remember all the events which happened in the history it's not like we living history but what we do is we live the experience of the history meaning the night of p is once again a shim and we must take out of that particular time we're not like celebrating for example Thanksgiving or a day that happened previously it's not the Thanksgiving it's a lesson that the all the momentum and the spiritual investment that you have from those particular days come back again meaning when we come to shus once again we're standing at T mat when we coming to suas once again we're in the suas meaning there's a certain momentum and a Brilliance of a light which comes out and that's what we're supposed to derive we're not looking back in history and just celebrating an event in history not at all meaning when it comes to khah it's not just we're just celebrating the victory of the kashman over the Greeks it's more than that it's we Rel living again the moment the inspiration and the tremendous growth that we can take out and that I think is the meaning of the word kanuka when it comes to kanuka what exactly is the momentum what is the guidance like we said by rut that we're supposed to take out of that we receive a what is the that perhaps we can take out from it perhaps it's this RAB a suggestion you remember the episode that when shame and yaes came in to Noah when he was intoxicated he was lying on the ground and shame and yaes the two sons of Noah came and covered him up afterwards Noah realized what they had done and he gave him a beautiful BR and the BR which he put together of Y of one son and shame together is written in the in the end of May Hashem extend but we mean of course the expression is from the word Yi let the beauty come to Y which is Greece Y which is Greece shame and he should dwell in the tents of Shame meaning the beauty which was given and the sensitivity which was given to to yavan and he should also dwell inside the camps of Shame which is clis which are the Jewish Nation when we look at this we realize what exactly is going on what was the which gave to Y and to it was the gift of beauty of great sensitivity and that was the external features which YZ had and they are together they live together in the the tense of Shame if you understand that you need tremendous for that you need a tremendous education why because one thing is for sure if you get it right if you understand the difference between Yan between Greece and the beauty and the sensitivity and the external features of yan but if they're inside the tense of shame it can be lethal it can be catastrophic and when I say the word catastrophic you know in Israel the word is not catastrophe catastrophic catastro catastroph catastrophic means like it's it's disastrous it can be hopeless it can be awful meaning as follows there is such thing as a semblance of yovon inside the the tents of of oil of Shame there is the beauty of Yovan which exists at the same time inside the tents of shame in in the of T that can be wonderfully wonderfully Illuminating can be very exciting and very inspiring to a person but you have to be very careful why because if it goes too far if the influence of the Greek culture completely gets involved and saturated inside shame then you have a major problem meaning on the one hand it could be wonderful because the Beauty and the sensitivity which is applied to tah and Mitzvah on the other hand if it's taken too far and what doesn't have a and there isn't an education and understanding and a comprehension how far you must take the point of the secular culture of Greece then you have something which is catastroph catastroph means disastrous hopeless and that's really the balance here and I think that is the point of that we must come out with when it comes to Kana Kana means a an education in Beauty do you understand what the meaning of beauty is after all that was y y was given y was given a tremendous a blessing of beauty and sensitivity as we know the Greek culture and science but it's inside the tense of Shame which can be potential wonderful but at the same time can be lethal can be disastrous if it's taken too far and I believe in our times in the great representation we have of the secular culture and materialism that is I think one of the greatest points of of education education and Beauty when it comes to Kana and that should set us up for the whole of the rest of the year take a from hanuka what does it mean making a border making a clear demarcation between something which is physically Beau beautiful and something which is has the Kusha and the sense of the divine presence which is in the tense of Shame and therefore there you have the problem and I think that is where the of comes out which is for the whole of the year and Mer for the whole of our lifetime as well do you get it CLE do you understand is it too much involved the sense of Greece inside the tense of sh shame is it too much or is it not like that and that's where I think the great challenge comes out from kanuka to make it clear that we understand the difference between one and the other one is the kadus and the sensitivity of the sh inside shame and the other side is the Beauty and the sensitivity and the the Glorious features which Yan has but you have to be very careful and N the twain shall meet they they he sits inside the tents of Shame YZ but you have to know where the line is drawn let me give you an example what I'm talking about I remember reading once once made a beautiful Point shame and Andes were the three sons of Y of of n Sayes of hsh as follows the music of each of them is inside their name meaning the name of sham and describes the type of music that they have but they're quite exclusive each one is quite different let's start with hamam is really are black people and black people their music is very ham very hot very very passionate very Lively very physical I remember where I come from in England near where we used to live there was a West Indian Community and they were their music was loud and throbbing and they were dancing swaying their hands backwards and forward they were jumping up and down the music is the music ofam is very hot meaning of black people y means Europe meaning B Mo the be the music is very beautiful that's ya ya the music is it's a First Symphony second Symphony hallel halleluka it's beautiful the movements the different it's beautiful M move beautiful music and that's y y is intrinsically beautiful that's y sh name is clel a shame a name is always the essence of who they are meaning Jewish music has to have a purpose to it a shame is a a purpose to it and the whole purpose behind Jewish music it should have a purpose to lift a person up and that was really the greatness and the beauty of the music of the Le and the B mikos their music lifted you up and the time of beinging a sacrifice the greatness of of of the music of was it raised the spirits of the Kim and the people who doing the Ava I remember reading the voran writes in the beginning of his introduction to shim one of the greatest gifts that Hashem has given us is the power of music to lift us up and that's shame that's shame meaning the purpose of music is to lift you up to give you Enlightenment to lift up the n and give a great uh imagination and great inspiration to a person Enlightenment that's the power of music maybe it is maybe it is yaf but really Jewish music if you really understand what it is it's supposed to be with a purpose to it not just something which is loud and passionate or something which is just intrinsically beautiful it has to be more than that and that's the nature of it and that's the understanding that we have we must understand that point in reality this challenge of that we're mentioning here is really I think the whole essence of what we say in what exactly was the evil of of yan of Greece what exactly is the potential problem and the and the trap which there is in Greece it's this really it's that the culture is so beautiful and so exciting and so inspiring for a person you can get caught up into the into the culture and you go right off the rails right off the meaning the evil of yon is that as they say yovon never ever decide Greece never decided to destroy the Bas of mdash they would regard maybe b andet as fools why destroy a beautiful building the building is beautiful as it is why destroy it they weren't the same master plan of the other side of alanm of hon hon was to destroy to make Annihilation the Holocaust of clis they wouldn't have done that Yan turned around and said as follows there actually is a beauty inside it keep the bash but take them by the jagula go right to the life source of clis and that's the spiritual side of it the culture of Yovan when it comes inside the tents of Shame is is potentially lethal you can take out all the kadha and you're left with just the the the shell outside and that's what Yovan tried to do Yovan tried to take away by shabas the the the laws against shabas about bris Li they tried to pull away from kisel the essence the lifeline the the the the real point of life of K which is the spiritual side of it and that's the that's the meaning of the evil of of yovon that's the evil behind it maybe we can explain in the following way the medish explains that there were four rivers which came out of gan P gel andas four different Rivers the mes explains that each one of those Rivers represents a certain period of Exile of clarisel peine represents B Babylon who came and they like a bulldozer inside the inside the temple that was P was like the the cunning the the the ruthlessness of of hon when he came and suggested the idea to that was means the the the rule of of pers of mod of is as we'll come to that in a minute andas the last one refers to the great assimilation of the assimilation which we see in the godess of Ed which we're going through but let's come back to is yon is Greece andal wants to explain this follows from the word sharp and light meaning the culture of Greece gets in and gets out and you never even knew that it was there something I remember once explained it's like a master surgeon no a master gets in and gets out and you never even knew he was there meaning the theater the movies the sport the culture the building the science the philosophy everything there is about the Greek culture it gets in and if you're not careful it can take out your light it goes right to the jugular he goes right to the soul of a Jew and you have to be very careful if you're not careful meaning he's in inside the shame he's inside the tents of Shame one has to be very careful and know that's the the means that a person realizes what the dangers are of a Greek culture of the secular culture you can get in and you never even knew he was there I remember when I was growing up in England I had a friend who used to come and learn with me every shabbath afternoon we used to learn regularly together and he actually was a brilant he was a genius at languages I think he knew about five or six he knew German and Spanish Italian and and and French he was phenomenally gifted at languages he won what's called an open scholarship to Oxford he was extremely gifted meaning Oxford University was prepared to pay for him to come and study there he was a genius at languages I remember after the first year when he went to University he said to me I can't really haven't got time to come back and study with you I remember after the second year I remember I saw him around and he had taken his COV no longer did he have any connection to to Mitzvah I remember after the third year someone came and told me but he was so involved with the Oxford Union and all the students he had taken overdose of drugs and he died laa what a tragedy he became so much involved in the Union in the Oxford in the university life he was pulled in by it NE and over drug and he died from it what a tragedy meaning it's sharpen its light and you never even knew it was there and that's the problem the Greek culture is right inside it's y it's beautiful it's magnificent it's very inspiring the sport and the culture and the the architecture the sign is very enticing but one has to be very careful and that I'm suggesting is the which we need when we come to take from from so that you have a for the rest of the year maybe perhaps even for the rest of your life the lesson I think is is vital when it comes to Kana and appreciating what's behind the the education we're supposed to pick up from kanuka I remember at the funeral ofha Feinstein which took place in y on puim I remember we all dressed up for p and everybody turned up at M thousands hundreds of thousands of people came to the funeral ofstein everybody was standing there and we all waited for the god to come and say his the only person who gave a hper there who gave a funeral oration was RA the was P he came along and he said something if you know a little bit about the great josas of R he would sometimes say something called the state of the nation he would give an address and describe exactly what is happening in clel meaning it was like a major address of what's Happening inside clis and when he came to the funeral ofha R gave I think a state of the nation address he said as follows at the funeral of it used to be in clel that we had something called a bitter inisa a bitter inquis I meaning in in Germany in Spain in the pgms in Russia in Poland there what it was a bitter Inquisition it was very bitter and R then said as follows the scene has changed now we now have something called Aisa inisa a sweet Inquisition meaning the Greek culture and the affluence and the materialism pulls you in and it's a sweet it's an inquisition but it can be very sweet isn't that a phenomenal Insight what's going on inside CL Isel the Greek culture which has come in the music the money the the sport the entertainment all the different things which are so exciting about the Greek culture has come in it's an inquisition and that's going for the jugular and that's called sharpen light and if you're not careful you can lose your soul you can use your Jewish identity completely if you get too much involved inside the Greek culture I remember listening to one of the great Bon one of the great po here in gance Scher he once mentioned I remember hearing from him that he went to asked R the great was we just mentioned what is the greatest test the challenge of a child growing up in our in our times in our in our period which we live in what is the greatest challenge in how can we pass understand what is the challenge which a child face the great in our generation and in his tremendous understanding and his great Insight his pus this man living in AA in picha he understood exactly what was going he said as follows the greatest challenge which a parent has with a child is in our times that the child should have a kef which I suppose something of fun something of delight in something which is spiritual rather than something physical isn't that incredible insight though I find that incredible the sharpness of the statement meaning instead of a child having a great fun and Care from going out skating or or or or going on a on a teal somewhere or going on a holiday vacation or by doing something having a video or something that is something called a fun for a child but if a child can have a fun from doing something of a Mitzvah like in learning tah or giving or behaving in a certain way or ding if a child can have a ke and enjoy it and that surely is the challenge of the child should enjoy something spiritual rather than something materialistic or something from the secular culture that I think is an incredible Insight what does it mean the the ins the influence of the Greek culture and that is the education that we need in our times that we can pick a that the child can have what's called an inspiration and a fun and a delight from something in spiritual terms rather than something physical and something materialistic as we know so well I think if we're really going to understand exactly what we mean by the of this point that we're making that inside the tense of of Shame inside the tense of to there is the beauty of of yavan it mixes in there in order to make it clear to ourselves we have to really understand what is the definition of beauty how do we explain Beauty how do we understand it in to terminology for that we must turn to the writings of the vagon in Miguel's Esther the vagon explains as follows we know the description which is given to Esther she was extremely good-look and and very pleasant to look at the Von explains Toya refers to the Beauty and the Perfection of individual limbs for example a beautiful eye a beautiful hand a beautiful nose you means EX quitly formed well very well formed the beauty is your F in physical terms means that the person is the the features the limbs are very perfect are very symmetrical and perfectly molded and symmetrical in shape toas means to overall look you Fatar is the individual look and you Fatar is the overall look of the person and that's the nature of it but both G goes on as follows the vagon explains as follows but of course it's only a parable and there's a Nima there's a lesson which who has learned from it it means by Esther was y means individual actions which were done perfectly Hera mitzvas her actions each one was perfect each one was whole each one was molded in a beautiful way beautifully refined her physical actions it doesn't just mean maybe she she certainly was a beautiful woman you f in the simple meaning of the meaning but there's a depth behind it says the Von means perfectly formed in physical terms perfectly well done mitzah each mitzah was done perfectly for toas means the beautiful Midas her character traits which she had behind her and that's really the definition meaning we learn as follows the definition of beauty is not necessarily just on the outside that's Greek just the physical features but it's more than that it's also the point of internally meaning says the Von if you go to the tents of yaet just by yaet Alone by Yan then you get left with the external features the beautiful features and also the the overall look but if you go deeper look further meaning what the Torah describes as Yi it goes much deeper than that it means the way a person behaves and also their character traits which they have which is a beautiful lesson it goes much deeper than that in the Greek culture it's the external Point what you look like on the outside in toy terminology there's depth behind it the depth of behavior and the depth of behavior how a person conducts himself in character traits which is a beautiful point the depth in the Jewish culture which goes into the kadha and the divine presence rather than just the physical Beauty and the sensitivity on the outside that's the point behind it maybe as a proof to this we can take a look a bit further in that in the do you remember when was searching for wife of Vash and the POS says the servants came and suggested to a girl who's not yet married a a maiden just external all he was looking for was a pinup AAS just on the outside what she looked like on the outside not more than that there wasn't more that that was looking for it was only on the outside that was the the point behind what needed he didn't need the physical meaning the perfection in in the actions he needed what was called Tas the over a pinup as they say a Hollywood pinup but not much more than that that's what he needed if you understand this point then and we're taking it further the education and beauty that we have from y perhaps there's a greater depth behind it at all which we can understand through the explanation of theim the hints which are given in the names of Y and unshame in the following way the letters of yan are and and the letters of are the same letters the Jewish people are very often compared to a clis are the DU the loyalty and the devotion which clis it's the same letters as Yan but one is masculine and one is feminine Yan is masculine Y is feminine meaning it receives something AA is voted through a feminine form in the following way we can understand it in this way the national emblem they say of Greece is an olive the national emblem of kalis is man I remember reading in the writings of a Fred which is a beautiful point an olive is intrinsically brilliant its light is is brilliant in itself it is fascinating that's Yovan Yovan is the inspiration from the actual element itself but kis is a man meaning we receive receive something that meaning we receive from the almighty our wisdom and that's the the no itself is not beautiful it doesn't give a light but what ites them know and that is the difference between the culture of Yovan and the culture of Cl Israel the culture of yovon is a secular terms me it is a brilliant person a brilliant scientist a brilliant philosopher he is an olive meaning he's intrinsically brilliant and he is enlightening but by is what you receive from the the almighty gives you wisdom and that's the difference behind it the difference is what what you are or what you receive and what we have is only the almighty gives us knowledge the almighty gives us Beauty it comes from him and that really is the depth of understanding what the V mentions about Esther that's the education which you understand from there maybe we can take a little bit further if you remember there are two different Bas which one will make when you see a great man if you would see a great man in t a great sad for example you would have seen I don't know or these great tah leaders of their time you would say the following he divided up from his wisdom and gave it to those who fear Him meaning the definition of a great scholar in Torah terminology is someone who received a p means he received a portion from and he's a meaning the beginning of is the fear of the almighty meaning by a great he received a portion of wisdom from the almighty and his it's dependent on the level of his his fear of the almighty like if you would to meet somebody I know Isaac Newton or Beethoven a great person by the secular world you would say the following he gave from his wisdom to a person of Flesh and Blood meaning he was he was G it was a gift he was given he was given given the great wisdom but a gift like a giraffe has a long neck or an elephant has a trunk he was given a brilliant mind meaning it's a gift there's no connection for where it comes from the boss of he was he was a lucky man he was given tremendous in wisdom and great understanding but it's a Nanos of meaning like a ja has a long neck there's nothing different from that and that's the difference between them I remember hearing once from the great R fol he want to asked us a wonderful question from the on this basis of these two bras in the following way what BR would you make if you would have seen Albert Einstein he was a Jew because he's a great man in science what's the that you make and the said as follows if you see a Jew who's great in philosophy or in science you don't make any BR at all why the real skill of wisdom by a Jewish person is in toah meaning he's got the wrong profession it's true he might be a great but you would not say because does it's not and you would not say because he's a Jew meaning you wouldn't make any B at all if you would seen ABT Einstein he was a great thinker but you need the connection of of a connection to the almighty and also the as well which comes together with and that really is the difference between a great person in the secular world in the Greek culture and a great person in the toah world by a person in the secular world it's G it's a gift which is given to there's no connection from way it comes from and that really is the the the olive the olive means intrinsically it's bring it's a gift that is brilliant but in the to world it's not like that it's a man he received something and that's the meaning of the the means he took something and was given something as a gift from the almighty because of his great fear of God and that gives us wisdom the almighty gives us he gives it and that's where our wisdom comes from and therefore I hope we getting further and understanding the point of what it means by an education and beauty and that I think is part of when it comes to we we come out with a clearer mind what does it mean we we understand that the beauty is inside the tense of it's inside there he's inside he's inside and the education is one has to make a clear difference what is one side and what is the other side I suppose we can go a little bit further I don't mean to be a cynic and I I'm only bringing in this point over in order to make a certain point I hope you don't misunderstand me what I want to say but I want to explain what I think really is the main point of our to understand what do we mean the difference between a to to education and a secular education in the following way and that I think is the meaning of kanuka and the lesson of what would the Greek culture have said for example about a beautiful shitel or beautiful shal or beautiful I don't know a long beard and white I don't mean to be critical I don't mean to be cynical but I want to make a point here what would they say about a beautiful black hat or a beautiful Shri or beautiful the oven would say it's beautiful it's wonderful it's gorgeous it's so beautiful no they would say what a beautiful beautiful outfit you're wearing no a long black coat or a beautiful stral a beautiful shle the would say it's beautiful it's wonder what would Yin turn around and say for example about the music of M Ben David a freed or Benny Freedman well it's wonderful it's like exor of the great it's wonderful the music is wonderful meaning the external is beautiful it's very Charming it's it's it's wonderful music they would love it what would Yan have turned around and said I don't know about morgas board or kilter fish or kpp or beautiful Jewish it's wonderful it's so tasty they would have enjoyed it all if you get the point what I'm saying what would the oven turn out the Greek culture and say beautiful silver candlesticks for shabas or beautiful table it's beautiful it's wonderful they would keep it all nothing wrong with it it's perfect no the beautiful celebration I don't know beautiful Al Kesh or beautiful mza box or beautiful bag for TWI it's all wonderful what the point we're making here of course I'm not trying to be factious I'm not trying to knock too much but the point is as follows you have to be very careful that you make sure that when you take your beautiful silver candles you know what it's for it's the K shabas KES and not just for the beauty if you do wear a beautiful shitel or Shri or whatever it is it's in order to create a Rous kadha it's not just for the external features I hope I'm not misunderstood but the point I'm trying to make is as follows in Greek culture they would love all these external trimmings they would be very attractive why not dress in a certain way and a a long pairs a Long White Beard and a beautiful black hat it's very attractive why not of course of course it's not the essence the essence is what's behind it all and the depth is behind it and that's really the point meaning you can live a whole of your life I suppose we can make a in the following comment as follows and say as follows you could be Greek style if you're Greek style you missed the point it's all external you didn't go far enough it's not just the outside dress for sure not it's not just the beautiful shabas tablecloth it's what it's for the kadha which is behind you can have all the beauty but you might be missing Thea and the divine presence behind it all you need to go deeper and look further and if you're only looking on the outside then I'm afraid it's it's Greek it's Greek style you didn't get the point you didn't go deeper I think's di there is a major major problem I think many of the advertising the magazines which they bring out and they say a person should come to our place for sucus and have five meals a day and you can have a DA yomi and you can also enjoy a golf course and and and all the other attractions and all the physical attractions it's very nice but perhaps it's going overboard perhaps all this brainwashing of what does it mean the materialism is only Greek style maybe something's gone wrong here and the point is we have to make it clear there's a which we need look deeper look further into the point that we're going and when you can do that then you can really understand the of look further and don't just take the points on the surface don't just look at the dress or the food or the music or the the mitzah that you do on the outside there's a depth of point of the genuine Mitzvah the lishma the devotion and the genuine sincerity behind the mitzah that surely is the point that we must take out in our understanding in our comprehension the of when it comes to making a distinction between Y and cl is say let's take it a bit further you've noticed every single year when it comes to kanaka we're dealing with Y YF is always the match in the parishes for Kaneka y himself was a y was an orphan a y the says as follows a beautiful point Y represent all the points of beauty the beautiful physical features and a beautiful appearance and countenance ysf was a y every test says the that ysep went through was a test of beauty meaning when we come to khaka and we have all the problems which we're discussing of the Greek culture on the the other hand you have ysf ysf is the role model of beauty and beautiful appearance on the outside but there was tremendous kadha inside him let's explain what we mean every test that ysf went through was always nearly always to do with beauty there's a yam you your F coming out he himself was F and that brought him in tremendous problems with his brothers because they thought he was someone just looking at his appearance when he was doing his hair he he had a problem with his Beauty when he came in front of Asa P she found him extremely attractive that was another test that he had all together to with his Beauty no that was the point I suppose even you couldn't say when he came to interpret the cows there were yers the cows were very beautiful as well no everything was you beauty by when it came to the women of of MIT they threw all their bracelets and their silver on top of the wag just to attract his attention everything by YF was a chest a challenge of beauty and he was able to overcome it all what does it mean you're able to come it alln as follow the Mish brings as follows I remember reading in a saer of the great sad in AER he wrote called a beautiful saer about y he says as follows the me brings out that the brothers never really knew who ysep was they never really recognize what was inside what was the basis of Y they never really understood him they didn't recognize him says the from the day that YF became a thinking person I suppose from the age of three until the day he died he never lost any he was always someone who was very connected to the almighty that's an incredible profile of a person here of all that ysep went through but they never knew that they didn't recognize him they didn't recognize ysep who he really was it's true he was very beautiful he was very attractive but behind the beauty was a tremendous kadha behind it all how do we know that if you look carefully at all the different references that the scena every scenario that we have with ysf nearly always you find the word y hashem's name there inside it let me read out to you the passages and this really goes to show behind the whole facade of the beauty of YF was a tremendous kadha behind him when he came down to the house of parer and he was working here the hasem the name of hasem is Hashem was with him in the house of Piper move on in front of Aer and he he I can't do this act with you I am sinning against against Hashem when he was inside the bet the prison he once again we keep on having the name Hashem here y was with him when he interpreted the dreams for power he said no always he's mentioning the almighty at every Point meaning it was on his lips every incident every scenario every challenge that he had he always brought the almighty inside he was physically very beautiful he was but behind it all was a tremendous lesson of Kusha behind it all when he came to to uh AC to um to ackn knowledge to his brothers has sent me here in order to to support you to be the economic provider for you all and after yob died you remember am I instead of hasem have always mentioned the almighty what does that mean it means as follows behind this great beautiful person this handsome person was a tremendous Kusha behind it all and that is the match which we have every year that is the the of Shame together with the tents of of of Y put them together Y is the role model for us in other words a point of that we must P if you want to find a personality who would fit this bit is yosf y is the person to match for kanuka because when we're dealing with the secular culture of all the Beauty and the the sensitivity of the external features ysep is a role model how is it done in clis and explain why was it possible for all the men when they came down to MIT and they live there in Egypt to be able ble to be careful of morality with all the Egyptian women because ysep set a phenomenal example of kadus ysep was a walking Kash a holy of holies he set the example and he set the trend and because of that all of the men in MIT were able to withstand any tests of morality there he was a role model and that's the that we're taking out from kanuka in a beautiful way ysep matches kanuka we see another person as well do you remember the description which is given by s in the toosha the Tah says that she was 127 years old when she died and Rashi brings out a point the age of 100 she was same at the age of 20 mean as a 100-year old lady she was the same as a 20-year old girl who doesn't have any ha and then Rashi says at the age of 20 she was like a 7-year-old in Beauty meaning her beauty of a 20-year-old was like the beauty of a seven-year-old what is what is it what is the beauty behind it what is the great Miler what is the great quality I hear from 100 until 20 she was free of any sin what does it mean from the age of 20 to 7 what is the great compliment which we're giving to Sor here the answer is as follows a 20-year-old girl knows exactly what she looks like seven-year-old has no idea what she looks like meaning she's so innocent she's so pure and so simple in her and she doesn't realize how but a 20-year-old woman does meaning the beauty of s 20-year-old was like a seven-year-old girl she was as innocent in that way meaning she never held herself in great Beauty she never regarded herself there was no Pride or there was no great distinction in her own mind of who she was and how beautiful she was maybe that's the reason as well the gamar brings out that s had two names she was also called yka and the g the explains as follows the word y means to look out to to glance at something s looked on everything with tremendous K and everybody looked at her because of her beauty now say put the two of them together isn't a beautiful lesson you have a woman who everybody's looking at because of her great Beauty on the other hand she had rues since when do you have a woman who's exceptionally beautiful at the same time with rues that's an incredible match here and that was really the match I suppose we can say also for YF as well s also laid the stand when she was taken down to MIT she set the standard for all the women the morality and the the modesty of of S she was exceptionally beautiful but at the same time she Hades that's an incredible thing everybody's looked at her for beauty but at the same time she had in her in her view how she looked at everything and that's an unbelievable lesson which we're taking out from s these are the two Role Models which I think we should take out when it comes to making this the education and Beauty which we have when it comes to you have two people like and they never knew who he was and as well everybody looked at her but she Hades these are the role models which we have to do when we find y inside Greek culture inside the B of Med inside the tents of shame we have to be so careful and cautious to make sure it doesn't envelop us and saturate our understanding of beauty I'd like to show you something a little bit further how far we go I remember once reading in the writings of the alter from Kel He once made a beautiful point in the one of the most beautiful buildings which CL ever had was the mishan was the B mikdash and the big was buil not the describes exactly the beauty behind theik listen to these words I think this really describes what it means the understanding of recognizing what is real Beauty in Toyo terminology when you listen to these words try and close your eyes and imagine the scene if you can picture in your mind the scene that I'm drawing for you from theim the King Solomon made a beautiful canopy and all the wood was Cedarwood beautiful Cedar Wood all the way around all the pillars were made of silver so you have silver pillars and you have beautiful Cedar Wood all around Theo the seat which me the capus on the on the was made of gold so you have a gold seat there Al and all the hangings were purple please put it all together in your mind's eye you have seed of wood all the way around you have pillars of silver you have a golden seat and you have purple hangings curtains there it doesn't end there inside everything had a veneer of it wasn't just a beautiful home at the palace of Versa or Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle no inside everything was overlaid with ala the sincerity and devotion of clisa isn't that a beautiful thought it was physically beautiful but if you look at the everything had a near at a covering of the the home was a beautiful home and meaning as follows when you have a beautiful home but you must remember the Ala behind it all it's not enough just to have a beautiful home if it is a beautiful home I'm not saying a person should live in a cave a person shouldn't enjoy materialism but you have to know you can be Greek style you can be Greek style you have to be careful make sure you look at the point you go deeper much deeper and that's the which we're bringing out theik was physically beautiful but everything had a covering of of of isem AEM was a beautiful the love of the almighty mean the devotion and sincerity you might have the physical Beauty and the physical attraction but if you don't have the sincerity and devotion inside that's the pimus the inside not just a look at the outside and that is the lesson I think which we're taking here that is the education of beauty which we're coming out with from KH that is suggestion which we're making here if you have an opportunity when it comes to Kan you have something to set yourself for the the opportunity of Hanah is to teach you the importance of making a distinction between a Greek and secular culture and the Jewish culture and the to culture it goes much deeper we're looking for something far deeper than that we're looking for depth and understanding of the Kusha and the presence of the almighty inside the be the the the beauty behind it it must go deeper than that and that's the points which we're bringing out maybe we can end with the sh sh which we have every single day of kanah we say Chapter 30 of T every day after daving m the dedication of the means the education the the dedication of it what is the if you know a little bit I'm not going to go through the whole pay but pay 30 of toim goes up and down means you go high you go low in the morning at night I was crying in the morning I had Joy he goes up and down it's all the challenges of life the challenges of life you have one at night you might be hard it might be crying in the in the morning you're happy the day goes up and down your life goes the challenges go up and down sometimes you're successful sometimes you have a failure all the different challenges of life and that's called the interesting even though it's talking about the dedication of the B mikdash but it's the whole peric is talking about the challenges which a person have you go up you have success you have failure you that's the challenge of life but what's the end of the line the end of the line is the last P here the last p man in order that in all that you go through in life all the challenges is a nickname for the if you're know to heal him the word often refers to the that the should always be singing and shouldn't be numb it shouldn't be silenced hasem my God I will always thank you what happens when a person becomes very involved in the secular culture of Greece the namb becomes numbed it become silent if you watch too much television or you watch too much of movies or you're too much involved in sport too much involvement with it I'm not saying a person shouldn't do sport if you like it enjoy but you have to be care if it becomes too much involvement then then you have yo then the Soul becomes numbed and that's the meaning of the we mentioned beforehand you can go too far and if you're not careful it can take away your whole spiritual existence your whole your whole enthusiasm for something spiritual always my heart should be pumping also with appreciation for you I always thank you that is the that is the of a person individually meaning when it comes to kanah we have to make sure we're careful we're cautious from any involvement which we have in materialism the Greek culture might be very beautiful and very exciting and very enticing it pulls you but you have to know the division and that's I'm suggesting is the education and Beauty which we can have out of if a person picks that up he has what's called Al you have the moments the days of are days of and the is I'm suggesting for the rest of the the and the rest of your life you can pick up that direction in life and you know exactly which way to turn and what it means too much involvement be careful with your protect your it should never be numbed it should always be alive and that I think is a lesson which we can take out of let these words be a tremendous and in the Merit of these people we should be enlightened ourselves and understand the difference between a toal culture and a Greek secular culture make sure the division is clear to us exactly where we're going what we're doing with our shabas tablecloth with our silver candlesticks when we put on a shle you wear whatever we do anything externally always look deeper go deeper in the pus go further go much further we are after all like a man we receive everything but any insight that we have any wisdom we have we are Mana we're not an olive that's the greatness behind us we have whatever we have is everything is given to us from the almighty and that's the to culture the external is all the Greek the Greek culture the music the music might be passionate and hot but it has to have a shame to it it has to have a purpose to it a t to it and that's the nature that's the lessons which we're coming out of all the different points which we mentioned I hope I wasn't too cynical but the point I hope is understood all the external features that we have in Judaism in the tur it's wonderful it might be very beautiful very wonderful but you have to go much deeper and always catch on the kadha and the sh inside it these are the days of days of we should never lose these points of and education and education and Beauty for the rest of our lives can you